Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:54:58AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Dec 14th, 2.6.8 and 2.4.27 advisories get released, the first
> kernel updates for sarge
> Dec 17th, 3.1r1 gets released
> Dec 20th, 3.1r1 gets announced
>
> Jan 20th, DSA-946-1 is released for sudo, breaking the buildds,
> and introducing critical bugs 349196, 349549, 349587, 349729
> Feb 6th, Joey mails indicating he'd like to release the update
> at the end of Feb (27th/28th) or a little bit later at
> the end of February. "let me know if this is ok for
> you - or if this is not ok for you"
> Feb 22nd, I mail both Joey (as SRM) and the security team noting the
> queue changes that should happen "with a stable update
> coming up"
I note that it took you 16 days to reply, and that you seem to want to
build a dependency between a change which is not strictly needed to
make a point release (if it were needed, why was it possible to
release 3.1r1?) and 3.1r2. May I ask why?
Greetings
Marc
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